AI Application & Integration Engineer
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Job Location:
Huntsville, AL - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
17 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Opportunity
PeopleTec is currently seeking an AI Application & Integration Engineer to support our Huntsville AL location.
PeopleTec is seeking an AI Application & Integration Engineer to support the development and deployment of an AI-powered training ecosystem serving DoW customers. This engineer will work directly with analysts subject matter experts and program leadership to build and maintain the full application stack from FastAPI services and front-end UX flows to Azure-hosted AI pipelines and RAG-based document intelligence.
A strong emphasis is placed on hands-on Python and cloud integration experience as these are essential for building reliable ingestion pipelines wiring generative AI capabilities into production interfaces and maintaining the developer tooling that keeps the team moving. The selected candidate will own features end-to-end bridging the application layer and the AI backend without requiring a large team around them.
Duties:
- Design implement and maintain FastAPI endpoints and background jobs: file upload/processing search/query webhook handlers and long-running task management
- Build and maintain the front-end application: multi-page UX flows upload modals client-side validation and fallbacks for async operations
- Implement and maintain OIDC PKCE / OAuth2 flows for CAC authentication session management and secure credential handling
- Apply application-layer security controls: CORS CSRF protections content security policies secure cookies and session rotation
- Build document ingestion pipelines for PDFs Office files images and HTML: text extraction OCR chunking and deduplication tuned for LLM token budgets
- Implement embedding workflows (batch and incremental) and manage vector storage via Azure Cognitive Search Chroma or FAISS with Azure Blob backing
- Implement RAG orchestration: retriever ranker LLM reader with verifiable citations and configurable answer policies
- Integrate Azure OpenAI Service and other Azure-hosted LLMs; provide adapter layers enabling provider switching with minimal code changes
- Create prompt libraries and safe-mode wrappers for SOP extraction procedure QA summarization and PII/PHI redaction per DoD data handling requirements
- Integrate app endpoints with Palantir Foundry AIP agents and Azure AI Services; handle eventual consistency retries and error recovery
- Instrument telemetry to Azure Application Insights / Log Analytics; configure alerts for hallucination spikes latency regressions and error rates
- Ship and maintain local dev tooling (docker-compose / devcontainer) for developer parity with production environments
- Contribute to ATO documentation data flow diagrams and security review artifacts as needed
- Participate in program reviews sprint demos and government customer demonstrations as a technical representative
Qualifications
Required Skills/Experience:
- 3 years of hands-on experience building production Python/FastAPI or equivalent backend services
- Active Secret security clearance (U.S. citizenship required)
- Demonstrated experience integrating Azure AI services (Azure OpenAI Cognitive Search Form Recognizer Application Insights or equivalents)
- Proficiency with RAG architectures: chunking strategies vector embeddings retrieval tuning and LLM answer generation
- Experience with OIDC/OAuth2 authentication flows including CAC/PIV or equivalent certificate-based auth patterns
- Front-end development skills sufficient to build and maintain functional analyst-facing UIs
- Comfortable in containerized development environments (Docker devcontainers)
- Understanding of RMF ATO and cybersecurity compliance processes within the DoD
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
An active DoD Secret clearance is required to perform this work. Candidates are required to have an active Secret clearance or the ability to obtain one as well as to maintain this level of clearance during their employment.
Education Requirements:
- Bachelors degree (BA/BS) with 3 years of relevant experience or 7 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
Desired Skills:
- Active Secret clearance or eligibility
- Experience working within DoD IT environments Azure Government Cloud or on programs with ATO requirements
- Familiarity with Palantir Foundry AIP agents or similar defense-context data/AI platforms
- Experience with prompt engineering safe-mode wrappers or PII/PHI redaction in regulated environments
- Prior work on NIPR/SIPR web applications or Army Aviation training systems
- Experience writing or contributing to ATO packages RMF artifacts or STIG compliance documentation
- Background in DevSecOps or secure cloud-native application development
Overview
People First. Technology Always.
PeopleTec Inc. is an employee-owned small business founded in Huntsville AL that provides exceptional customer support by employing and retaining a highly skilled workforce.
Culture: The name PeopleTec was deliberately chosen to remind us of our core value system - our people. Our companys foundation was built on placing our employees and customers first. With an award-winning atmosphere we have matured into a company that boasts the best and brightest across multiple technical fields.
Career: At PeopleTec we value your long-term goals. Whether its through our continuing-education opportunities our robust training programs or our People First benefits package PeopleTec truly believes that our best investments are our people.
Come Experience It.
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EEO Statement
PeopleTec Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in its job application procedures. If you have any difficulty using our online system and you need an accommodation due to a disability you may use the following email address and/or phone number (256.319.3800) to contact us about your interest in employment with PeopleTec Inc.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age genetic information citizenship ancestry marital status protected veteran status disability status or any other status protected by federal state or local law. PeopleTec Inc. participates in E-Verify.
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